All 79 suspects arrested from Anbaraa festival tested positive for drugs, police reveal
20 Apr 2014, 4:50 PM
All 79 suspects taken into police custody from the island of Anbaraa in Vaavu atoll tested positive for drugs, police have revealed.
Briefing the press today, Chief Inspector Abdulla Satheeh explained that police received intelligence information suggesting that alcohol and drugs were being used and sold at the two-day music festival held on the uninhabited island.
Police raided the island with a court order at midnight on Friday night (April 18), he noted.
The Drug Enforcement Department, Specialist Operations, police intelligence department, and the forensic department conducted the operation, Satheeh said.
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